I'm coming after you.

Always close by.

Skye's POV

It's Adam.

The voice.

It's so loud now it's almost deafening.

Crystal clear.

My Adam is screaming at me to wake up.

I try to fight my eyelids open.

But it just feels so much better to sleep.

No. Skye. You're not sleeping. You're dying. If you sleep, you sleep forever. NOW WAKE. UP.

I wrench my eyelids open and I am suddenly short of air.

I start desperately gasping for it.

I see nothing but white. White everywhere.

Then everything starts to come in to focus.

Blurred and then...

Woosh.

In the space of a millisecond.

Perfect vision.

I see, hear, smell, feel, everything.

Someone is grasping onto my hands.

There are people yelling, shoes frantically clacking against hard flooring.

'Please back away sir'

'But-'

'Immediately. Sweetheart, can you hear me? What is your name?'

Skye. My names Skye. Where's Adam?

My mind was forming perfect sentences but not a sound escaped my mouth.

I tried Harder.

'A-'

'A-Ad'

'Doctor. Miller, could you come here please'

'A-adam-m'

'Shh, shh, Skye, Skye I'm here, hey, hey I'm here, everything is okay, you're safe'

'Sir stand back please we just need to check her vital signs.'

His hands slipped out of mine and it felt horrible. The warmth left my body and I was suddenly afraid.

'N-no, NO. NO.' I cried out

'Okay, okay, hold her again, hold her steady please.'

He nodded obediently and took my hands in his again.

My laboured breathing returned to normal and my body felt lulled.

They shone things in my eyes, and pressed cold things up against my chest.

Where am I...

They probed and poked at me for far too long.

Eventually it ceased, and the room was hush...

My god, I'm so tired...

I let my eyelids flutter close again.

'N-no, no, no, Skye, don't go to sleep, you just came back to me, don't leave me again'

I forced them back open.

'But I'm so... tired... Adam...'

'I know, I know you are my princess by but you have to try and fight it'

He gently stroked my cheek with the back of his hand.

The warmth from his soft skin radiated throughout my whole face.